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I have a dual-screen setup, which works fine, but there's one annoyance, the window shadows.

If I maximize a window on one screen (or just make its edge touch the edge of one of the monitors), the shadow from that window "crosses" the screen and goes to the other one, creating a useless visual effect which just looks weird, since the monitors are not exactly touching, so the shadow has no usefulness or relevance there.

Is there a way to disable it (but not disable all window shadows)?

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if only fullscreen was remotely useful on dual monitors :( – Agos Nov 28 '12 at 21:19

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The shadow crosses over because the computer treats the displays as one long desktop with no space between. So if you had one short-wide monitor, it would make sense to have that shadow where it is.

There are ways to adjust the size of your display, so perhaps you could do this on one of your monitors to create a "dead zone" between, i.e. a little strip of desktop that neither screen displays. I've never tried this, so no guarantees. Otherwise, simply disable shadows altogether.

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I know why it happens / how it's coded, that's not the point... I don't know of / think there is a way to make a dead zone. – houbysoft Jan 8 at 15:52

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